In criticising both the loss of the ports from the MacBook Pro and headphone socket from the iPhone 7, he said that Apple CEO Tim Cook was “boring, visionless and incompetent” and called for him to leave the company.

Keeping ports is exciting, vision-making and competent. Ditching them is the opposite.

The discussion began reasonably enough…

But ended with a pack of howler monkeys taking over the studio and flinging about things best left unflung, while Calacanis engaged in a “Yo mama” fight with a 4-year-old orphan whose only retort was to continually sob “My mother is dead!” as Leo Laporte struggled to regain order.

OK, only some of that happened.

Calacanis: ”If you put the person in charge of logistics in charge of Apple, the ships and the trains and everything’s going to run on time, but the product is going to suffer…”

“Getting rid of the headphone jack, and forcing people to make a decision if they want to charge their phone or make a phone call, is incompetence…”

Suggesting that good products do not force people to make decisions is how you keep floppy drives and VGA ports forever.

But forget about that. ENGAGE FULL RAGE-O-TRON!

“And to take the MagSafe connector … to take this innovation that they’re known for and throw it away, and put four USB-Cs and take away another loved feature, the HDMI that plugs right in, knowing that people were in the video business and developers love that, it reeks of some level of incompetence that can only happen when you put someone as boring and visionless as Tim Cook in charge of a company with a legacy and a passionate user-base like Apple.”

Never mind that you can now power the MacBook Pro from any port. Never mind the portability improvement of a lighter professional laptop. HANG ON TO THOSE LEGACY PORTS FOR DEAR LIFE!

Calacanis went on to compare his view of Cook with Steve Jobs, seemingly forgetting that Steve hand-picked his successor.

This started on a comment by LaPorte about Apple dropping the price of adapters. Which, the Macalope agrees, they should have done when the new MacBook Pro was announced. It’s a port transition period, you should make it easy for your customers.

It’s true Apple isn’t doing as well as it was a few years ago, but it’s still doing remarkably well. As as for whose bets on the future are better, Tim Cook’s or Calacanis’s…

Let’s just say the Macalope will stick with Cook’s.

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